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GNOME 3.0 schedule proposal published
Today the GNOME release schedule proposal for 2.31/3.0 was published. Please keep discussion streamlined on desktop-devel mailing list. It also lists high risk areas and potential showstoppers (please note the word “potential”) as I want to communicate them clearly to … Continue reading
GNOME 3.0 module proposals welcome now!
The Module proposal period for the next GNOME release has started! If you are a maintainer of a module that you want to propose for official inclusion in GNOME: Do it now! See the wiki for the guidelines.
A blast from the (German) past
Spend a day at my parents’ place this weekend and cleaned up a bit. Found this old application for Western German citizens to enter East Germany. Interesting to see all the stuff that was asked for. Also wondering why it’s … Continue reading
FOSDEM, ah well, why not?
Okay, after checking exam dates, chatting with Olav and the Openismus crew, and having the Maemo and GNOME communities in mind I’d like to state: Just booked a one-way flight to Brussels, not decided yet how and where to go … Continue reading
maemo.org: SNAFU ;-)
The last two weeks were a bit… stressful. First of all some Nokia-internal changes with regard to Error Management, then maemo.org Bugzilla moving to a new server. Unexpected side effect was data loss. Spent part of last Monday restoring what … Continue reading
2009 Bugzilla statistics for maemo.org and GNOME
This morning my calendar told me there’s a new year available, so I created some quick & dirty statistics for my favorite bug databases: maemo.org Bugzilla 2009 stats GNOME Bugzilla 2009 stats
2009: Music.
Like last year my private soundtrack for 2009 in alphabetic order. (Warning: Explicit lyrics and/or video content.) Röyksopp and The Dø to mention separately, because both albums are just marvelous. Quite unfair to pick just one song here. Miou Miou … Continue reading
GNOME 3 platform cleanup
Long time no update on the Cleanup part of GNOME 3, hence if somebody wants to spend the Christmas days with hacking a bit on boring stuff, here’s the ToDo list! ;-) Killing libgnomeui: gnome-panel Killing libglade: gdm (patch available … Continue reading
To GNU or not to GNU
Being not subscribed to GNOME’s foundation-list mailing list (and having no intention to subscribe to it), I tried to catch up a bit with the controversy of the last days. I might have missed stuff of course. Trying to summarize: … Continue reading
Maemo: Contributing and long-term platform strategy
Great to see the interest on Maemo in the last weeks. As expected, traffic in the forum, in Bugzilla and in Brainstorm has increased impressively.Discussions have been taking place (with regard to Bugzilla for example here or here) how to … Continue reading
